The mother stella ad I hate least
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw10G6-tfqg
It’s well styled, an original (until someone points out its YT antecedent. I believe something similar happened in the Omar Sharif film La Casse*) premise with an amusing ending.
However, if anyone cares, I find a large head really ruins a pint.
Also, I believe it is credited to Wes Anderson, but I hear tell he was rarely on set, instead delegating his duties to Roman Coppola.
*Although this is true, I’m not for one millisecond suggesting this ad is in any way a rip off.
oh.
and a shame as it’s a nice idea, even if it is ripped from a movie scene.
stacy wall would’ve done a nice job of it.
don’t know why. he just would’ve.
Directed by where’s anderson.
Wes did direct it, through ichat and Roman
Like it.
Ben what do you think of the Costa Monkeys ad?
S’alright innit?
It reminds me of the house in Mon Oncle. My favourite Tatis film.
The Costa Monkey ad would be OK if it weren’t for this:
http://www.ben-kay.com/2010/07/please-dont-write-a-monkey-into-your-ad/
I know full well that the people involved were made aware of the consequences of using real monkeys in this ad, yet they went ahead anyway, all to make a mediocre little effort that will be forgotten by next week.
Well done guys.
it’s Quagmire’s flat
Thoughts about the Virgin Ad? Anyone?? And Ben.
i abandoned costa long ago because their coffee is quite average.
but i’m going to go back to one now so i can throw the coffee back in their face.
cunts.
who did that?
Virgin ad is such a mixture of moments that I think some work better than others. For example, I wasn’t sure about the pole dancing businessmen, but overall, it’s quite fun.
Post is a bit inconsistent too, but I’m not sure if that’s deliberate.
I think the Virgin ad is fantastic.
If all an ad can do is make you feel great about a product then I think it does it in spades.
A&E’s new chocolate fingers ad. Although, having seen it, I wonder whether the fingers are covered in faeces rather than cocoa…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o79NENntU5I
Is the trick to use obscure (shite) films as a spring board? As for a big head ruining a pint, are you talking of the recipient, ‘cos I had an idea‚Ķ
Just on that Costa ad… Who’s the voice over? I hate him.
Bill is Nigh
what is the stella ad supposed to say? costa are cunts. virgin is over the top. or do they serve shrooms? when i think about it all a little longer … i hate advertising.
I wonder if the client got so annoying on the shoot that the creatives attempted to shit on their own arms but missed and shit on their fingers instead. Volia. Chocolate Fingers.
Talking of which why doesn’t Cadbury’s do a Chocolate Arms version of their Chocolate Fingers. You know. For grotesquely fat people to eat. Complete with elbow skin detail.
Hey I just have the ideas. It’s up to the boys down at Cadbury Crescent(twinned with Hershey Highway)to make it happen.
I like this ad. And that Costa ad, that’s seriously bad karma.
Oh, I’ve got it… It’s that old cunt from Love Actually.
Bill Nighy.
Him, Sean Pertwee and that guy from This Life have the voiceover market by the balls.
The Stella ad is still saying Reassuringly Expensive to me. Then again, I am a clueless tit.
I need to think about my pension don’t I? Having said that, don’t anyone bother watching “The Boat That Rocked” because..
a) It fucking doesn’t rock, and
b) It’s fucking shite.
Richard Curtis is a massive cunt. Hey Ben, why don’t you do a post on how much of a cunt Richard Curtis is?
When you do, can you cut and paste this in for me please.
Richard Curtis is a cunt.
Having met Richard a few times, I can categorically state that he is not a cunt.
He basically brought Comic Relief and Live 8 into being and worked tirelessly to try to bring about the end of poverty in 2005.
Of course, it didn’t quite come off, but to me that is the behaviour of the opposite of a cunt (and I don’t mean a prick).
But yes, much of his writing is awful, as is his depressing obsession with casting McCutcheon and Grant in really dismal roles. Bean, Dibley, Love Actually, and (I haven’t seen it yet but I don’t deserve to put myself through that) The Boat That Rocked must be amongst the worst things ever written.
But the man ain’t a cunt.
I think this film also inspired it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT75Uce6pqc&feature=related
What about Bono then?
He too works tirelessly to bring an end to poverty and he’s probably the biggest cunt in the world.
Sting? He works endlessly for benefit of “the planet”…cunt.
Chris Martin…shall I go on?
yes, yes, yes, yes, no. the vicar of dibley ain’t that bad?
Bill…this is getting tricky. Bono, Sting and Chris are indeed cunts, but they’re different because…
Shit.
I don’t really have a leg to stand on.
I guess Richard seems less cunty because he doesn’t ram himself down people’s throats like the other three. Their behaviour makes it seem to me like they’re out to promote themselves by piggybacking on the rather weak shoulders of a starving African child.
Maybe I was a little hasty in my description of Mr Cuntis. Maybe he isn’t such a bad cunt after all. But he most definitely is a shit writer and this guy is being pillared as the benchmark for British cinema. That’s what makes him a cunt.
My rant is over, we can carry on talking about that stella ad now if you like?